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Subject: Re: [jQuery] Accessibility. Take it Seriously in Your Web Apps.
I completely and totally disagree with the court
I completely and totally disagree with the court in this case. At what point
does it stop? Does my personal blog need to be accessible to the blind? What
if I don't care about them? Why should the courts get involved in this
No, your personal blog doesn't need to be accessible because it does
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [jQuery] Accessibility. Take it Seriously in Your Web Apps.
I completely
I think the hardest part for many web developers to grasp, including
myself, is how web accessibility is handled in web apps. Just hearing
the term web accessibility makes it sound like a massive task when it
may be as simple as placing text in ALT or TITLE tags. Since I've never
coded for
-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]OnBehalf Of Morbus Iff
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:28 AMTo: jQuery Discussion.Subject: Re: [jQuery] Accessibility. Take it Seriously in Your Web Apps. I completely and totally disagree with the court in this case. At what
point does
I think the hardest part for many web developers to grasp, including
myself, is how web accessibility is handled in web apps. Just hearing
the term web accessibility makes it sound like a massive task when it
may be as simple as placing text in ALT or TITLE tags. Since I've never
coded
Honestly, if you start with a strong and semantic and validated X?HTML
design, adding the accessibility to just that HTML is easy as pie.
Adding accessibility to jQuery would be a whole 'nother issue.
Thanks for the feedback.
For my needs, if you can't bookmark the results of an
AJAX
Why should the courts get involved in this matter?
Because few would make the effort otherwise. Sad but true. Section
508 was written to call out the fact that software companies CAN NOT
ignore our disabled citizens. Even so, most do anyway. Believe me,
it's MUCH easier going into a project
I took this from the other thread "Ajax Throbber How-to?" since I
believe it fits into this one better:
When was the last time you
disabled _javascript_?
Today, yesterday and most days before that. Not for my normal web
browsing, but for ensuring that the applications I build work without
Visual jQuery does not work without js. That was a purposeful decision I made to get it out the door and working. Obviously, this is something that probably will change in the future, but sites like Visual jQuery often can be released in a less friendly format, *especially if an alternative
That's an excellent point Yehuda. It's very easy to under estimate
the work involved in making an entire application accessible. I've
suffered through this pain for a huge Swing application. But at the
same time, people often over estimate what is involved (especially for
a small web-app or
Guys,
If you haven't taken accessibility seriously, then you need to read this:
http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=21297
Rey...
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